Device for mashing malt



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DEVICE POR 'MASHING MALT.

10.410,019. Patented Aug, 27, 1389,.

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HERMANN PIETSCH, OF MILVAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

DEVICE FoR MASHING MALT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,019, dated August 2'7, 1889.

Application filed January 14,1889. seau No. 296,222. cambia.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, HERMANN PIETscH, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Mashing Malt, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to devices employed in the operation of converting malt into mash; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, tobe hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a vertical transverse section of a device constructed according to my invention, the section being taken on line l l of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a barrel-shaped shell, preferably constructed of durable copper strengthened in any suitable manner, said shell being open at the top and terminated at the bottom in a spout A', the latter being either straight or curved, as may be most desirable. As ordinarily constructed, the shell A is provided with a hook B, by which my device maybe suspended from the upper edge of a mash-tub.

Secured to the interior of the shell vA is a perforated tube C, that occupies as much space as the bulge of said shell will permit. The greater portion of the perforated tube C is preferably curved in a direction opposite to the curve of the shell A, and in connection with the latter forms a chamber or receptacle D for mash-water, that is admitted under pressure through a port E, surrounded by a pipe-coupling F, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The shell A is also provided with openings G I-I, that are respectively closed by caps G' H', the former one of these openings serving as a means of ingress for the purpose of cleaning the chamber while any sediment or other particles too coarse to pass through the perforations in the4 tube C during the cleaning operation maybe drawn off through the latter opening.

At different stages within the interior of my device I arrange a series of eyes J for engagement with hooks K on` cone-shaped spreaders L L', this construction being best illustrated in Fig. 1.

Malt is spouted into the top of my device to be distributed by thejupper cone Lof the cone-shaped spreaders, and is then subjected to the action of the mash-water that pours through the perforated tube C at various angles with considerable force, and thus the malt receives a thorough soaking and turn sible results in the least possible time without danger of scalding the malt or clogging up of the perforations in the tube. f

` Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl l. The combination of abarrel-shaped shellV open at its upper end and terminated at its lower end in a spout, a perforated tube arranged within the shell to occupy as much space as the bulge of the latter will permit and form a chamber therewith, a series of eyes arranged at different stages wit-hin the perforated tube, a series of cone-shaped spreaders provided with hooks for engagement with the eyes, and a pipe-coupling arranged to surround aport in the shell, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ofthe shell A, provided with the spout A', hook B, the perforated tube secured within the shell and provided witheyes J, the port E, leading into the space between the shell and perforated tube, the pipe coupling F, surrounding the port, the openings G I-I in said shell, the caps G H', for closing the latter openings, and thespreaders L L', having hooks K for engagement with said eyes, substantially as set forth. V

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county7 of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

`lAlERll/IANN PIETSCH.

Witnesses: l

HENRY KNUCKE, N. E. OLIPHANT.

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